Overview The Warra Hydrology project was established in 1998. The study involves three headwater streams draining the eastern slopes of the Weld Range. One stream is in a pristine catchment (Warra Creek) and two in partially harvested catchments (Swanson and King Creeks). Three streams have ponding dams fitted with v-notch weirs and instruments installed to […]
Overview The SST compares different methods for harvesting and regenerating tall wet Eucalypt forests and tracks the development of the regenerating stands over time. The SST compares several methods of harvesting and regenerating tall, wet eucalypt forest with the standard method of clearfell, burn and sow (CBS). The harvest methods vary in the amount and […]
Overview The Warra Climate Station is an automatic weather station managed by the Bureau of Meteorology (Station 097024). The weather station commenced recording in September 2004. Measurements of temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and wind direction are logged each minute. Measurements of rainfall are logged in 0.2 mm increments. These data are summarised on the […]
Overview To understand the landscape patterns at Warra, vegetation, bird, and invertebrate surveys have been conducted at 100m intervals from the summit of 1300m Mt. Frederick to the banks of the Weld River at 50m altitude. Scope This study provides a baseline inventory and distributional biodiversity data against which future changes in the altitudinal distribution […]
Overview Fallen trees are an important part of the forest ecosystem that persist over long periods of time. The Log Decay project investigates large fallen trees, the biodiversity that depend on them, and their future on the landscape. Scope This study examines the role of log size on the decomposition process, decay rates and associated […]
Overview Warra is an important component and the southernmost member of a national network of study plots to monitor ecosystem changes at a continental scale, organised by TERN across rangelands and forests within Australia. Scope Four 1-ha plots have been established at Warra as part of an Australian network – AusPlots Forests – of 48 […]
Overview Established in 2005-2007, the Wilfire Chronosequence Plots monitor the effects of stand-replacing disturbance event on forest development. They provide a natural disturbance benchmark against which responses to forest harvesting and future natural fire events can be compared. Scope The Wildfire Chronosequence Plots were established in 2005-7 to monitor succession and structural development following stand-replacing […]
Overview The Experimental Landscape is 33 x 32 km landscape dominated by lowland wet eucalypt forest that captures a gradient of disturbance intensity resulting from past wildfires and post-European land-use. The SFEFL was established by FT in 2009 as a place to do landscape-level research. This is the scale that society views how our land-use […]
Overview An 80-metre instrumented tower measures the rates that CO2, water and energy that go into and out of a mixed-age (mature and 1898 wildfire regeneration) Eucalyptus obliqua forest. The site was established with funds from the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network – a facility funded by the Commonwealth Government through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Scheme. The […]
Overview Warra is one of 13 AusCover field sites established in Australia to provide detailed airborne imagery and ground-based measurements that can be used to develop and validate Earth observation products. Data collection High-resolution LiDAR and hyperspectral imagery have been collected over a 5 x 5 km area enclosing the Warra Flux Tower and surrounding […]
